Celebrate local harvest this weekend
Celebrate local harvest at Evergreen's Picnic at the Brick Works
Like me, many Torontonians are sitting on the edge of their seats, eager to taste what the third annual Picnic at the Brick Works will bring. Locavores and foodies will once again head down to Toronto's beautiful historic Evergreen Brick Works this coming Sunday to sample delicious local bounty.
This year's theme is Saving Diversity, and top chefs from all over the city will use local farmers' harvests to create tasty dishes to represent the many ethnic groups that make up Toronto.
And how will we wash all this delicious food down? I hear that many local wineries will be on site to showcase their great products too.
You can buy tickets to Picnic at the Brick Works from Evergreen at a cost of $110 per person (food and drink included, of course). Proceeds from ticket sales go to Evergreen and Slow Food Toronto.
If you're in or around Toronto, do you plan to attend to celebrate the sustainable food movement? If not, how does your community celebrate their local harvest?
Tags: Evergreen, harvest, picnic at the brick works, sustainable food
September 29th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Hi,
There is one little pet peeve I have with all this "buy local" stuff actually -- i understand the importance and the fact that we are trying to limit the emmissions from the transportation of fruits and vegetables -- but why is this so green anymore? I go to local farms and I do buy my stuff locally -- from the Mennonites and we plant our own food too -- but let's look at this: on sunday I went to an apple orchard and was having a great conversation with the owner of the farm when he mentions to me that he just received his bill for pestisides use -- $25000 for spraying all his fruit!!! my garden has no pestisides at all and it doesn't grow -- i still have lots of green tomatoes that doen't seem to want to ripen! so what exactly are we trying to accomplish here? eat lots of pestisides but buy it local? why don't we worry about all the chemicals that we are consuming, that are allowed to be used